STARS - Student Therapy and Resource Services

Development of Executive Function in Children - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-09 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Development of Executive Function in Children

Provide effective research-based activities to improve self-awareness, problem-solving and self-monitoring
Practical cognitive-motor activities to engage children to increase awareness of body and support attention, while increasing organizational skills, prioritization, and flexible thinking
Team collaboration strategies to identify challenges and integrate evidence-based strategies across pediatric environments for consistency and success

Identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Early Intervention - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-09 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Early Intervention

Confidently recognize the primary characteristics and patterns of development in infants and toddlers who have or are at risk for developing autism spectrum disorders
Treatments and resources available to children with autism spectrum disorders as presented by very young children

Positioning and Movement During Play - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-09 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Phoenix)
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Positioning and Movement During Play

Components of underlying development of movement and how to stimulate the neuro-sensory-motor pathways to gain a strong foundation for balance, posture and strength
Practical strategies for evidence-based positioning and intervention to promote optimal transitional movements and patterns
Essential elements of meaningful and purposeful play through the developmental stages of play
Support collaboration with teams and families to enhance effectiveness of interventions to improve learning and successful participation in activities of daily learning in a variety of environments

Integrative Functional Core Strengthening - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-06 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Integrative Functional Core Strengthening

Immediately improve your client’s functional breath capacity, core stability, and chronic spine pain symptoms
Apply a new holistic assessment tool and three highly effective core strengthening techniques

Treating the Shoulder in the Adolescent Athlete - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-05 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Treating the Shoulder in the Adolescent Athlete

Immediately increase your understanding of the adolescent musculoskeletal system and how it differs from the adult athlete
Practical strategies to treat common shoulder injuries in the young athlete

Differential Diagnosis Upper Extremity Pathologies and Symptoms - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-11-04 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver)
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Differential Diagnosis Upper Extremity Pathologies and Symptoms

Improve your ability to differentially diagnose cervical spine, shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand conditions
Effective special tests to discover referred pain patterns and red flags
Evidence-based practice approaches and case studies

Upper Extremity Nerve Entrapments & Neurodynamics - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-10-29 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
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Upper Extremity Nerve Entrapments & Neurodynamics

Practical assessment and intervention strategies for neurodynamic conditions of the upper extremity
Effective therapeutic management strategies often three main upper extremity nerves and their terminal branches

A Sensory-Based Approach to Pediatric Toe Walking - Live Webinar
2020-10-22 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights
A Sensory-Based Approach to Pediatric Toe Walking

Assess how behavior can be affected by environmental stressors in an individual’s effort to achieve homeostasis
Formulate treatment plans and home modifications based on standardized testing to meetthe needs of children who toe walk

Functional Active Myofascial Release - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-10-16 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Functional Active Myofascial Release

Immediately improve your client’s functional breath capacity, flexibility, chronic pain symptoms, and ADLfunction
Apply a new holistic assessment tool and easy to-use, self-applied myofascial release movements

Hand Therapy Differential Diagnosis and Testing to Lead Effective Treatments - Webinar
2020-10-15 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Phoenix)
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Hand Therapy Differential Diagnosis and Testing to Lead Effective Treatments

Immediately identify testing strategies to be effective in differential diagnosis of the hand/wrist and upper extremity
Improve your knowledge of upper quadrant anatomy and physiology to create better evaluations and more effective treatments

Cultural Diversity in Clinical Supervision - Webinar
2020-10-08 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
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Cultural Diversity in Clinical Supervision

Expand and improve knowledge of multicultural issues as they relate to clinical supervision
Develop and expand cultural responsiveness in the clinical setting
Improve cultural sensitivity and improve patient interactions

Practical and Effective Strategies for Integrating Sensory and Motor Learning - Live Webinar
2020-10-07 07:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
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Practical and Effective Strategies for Integrating Sensory and Motor Learning

Confidently develop clinical reasoning skills to identify red flags in child development including physiological, sensory, motor and environmental areas of need for the child
Gain effective strategies to build a solid foundation of support for learning and growth that will improve function
Learn the different sensory systems and identify strategies to improve sensory regulation throughout the child’s day in a variety of environments that impact development
Discuss how to integrate technology and interactive media in a meaningful and developmentally appropriate way for children
Comprehensive resources: Articles, handouts, visual supports, digital media sources, and activities to use immediately in treatment sessions, home programs, and classrooms

Seeking Improved Therapy Outcomes with Music - Webinar
2020-10-01 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights
Seeking Improved Therapy Outcomes with Music

Improve clinical outcomes for clients with a variety of disorders by incorporating the correct musical strategies to treatment sessions
Apply evidence and rationales of specific music tempos to target the correct clinical function
Effectively treat patients with Parkinson’s disease and engage them in treatment sessions

Canine Assisted Therapy - Live Webinar
2020-09-30 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
Canine Assisted Therapy
As more people become interested in how animals can therapeutically benefit humans, there has been a call for training animals to be Certified Therapy dogs. Because this is an important role, it is imperative that people and their animals become properly trained and certified. This increases the effectiveness, consistency, and legitimacy of using certified therapy dogs. This course will teach you the many benefits of using a trained animal during therapy sessions. It will give you resources and information on what is needed to obtain certification for a therapy dog. You will meet Polly and see her in action with several patients.

3 Key Trigger Point Treatments to Enhance Core Activation - Live Interactive Webinar
2020-09-24 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Phoenix)
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3 Key Trigger Point Treatments to Enhance Core Activation

Immediately improve your clients’ low back pain, initiate deep core musculature activation, and increase ADL function

Technology and Screen-Time - Live Webinar
2020-09-17 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Technology and Screen-Time

Evidence-based practices to support technology and digital-based media as a learning tool to support the whole child and development
Current recommendations to promote healthy and balanced habits
Integrate technology and digital-based media in our daily lives with support of media mentors
Effective strategies to teach digital citizenship while increasing parent awareness of intentional use of technology and digital-based media to promote learning

OASIS-D Demystifying the M1800/GG Relationship - Webinar
2020-09-02 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
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OASIS-D Demystifying the M1800/GG Relationship

Practice and review OASIS M items that directly affect Star rating
Easy-to use methods for understanding and applying the M/GG relationship

OASIS-D Demystifying the M1800/GG Relationship - Live Webinar
2020-09-02 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)

Low Vision Identification, Assessment, and Treatment to Maximize Functional Skills - Webinar
2020-08-26 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights
Low Vision Identification, Assessment, and Treatment to Maximize Functional Skills

Immediately identify treatment resources and strategies to maximize your patient’s function and safety
Standardized tests which produce data on vision and functional performance skills including balance and ADLs

Primitive Reflex Integration through Neuroplasticity - Live Webinar
2020-08-19 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
In this interactive 6-hour workshop, improve treatment for your clients by discovering the link between primitive reflexes and development. Learn to evaluate the influence of primitive reflexes with central nervous system development stages, as it relates to function. Practice simple techniques to immediately add to your treatment sessions, leading to increased developmental success:

Neurological Deficits
Sensory Processing Problems
Behavioral Challenges
Learning Disabilities
Autism
ADHD

Identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Early Intervention - Live Webinar
2020-08-13 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)

Current Concepts of Exercise, Pain Science, and Manual Therapy - Live Webinar
2020-08-05 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
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Current Concepts of Exercise, Pain Science, and Manual Therapy

Practical summary of current intervention strategies frequently used in physical therapy and rehabilitation
Effective, evidence-based review of common orthopedic rehabilitation interventions and their relationship to wellness

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Made Simple: ACT for PTSD, Anxiety, Depression & Personality Disorders - Live Webinar
2020-07-27 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
Are your current techniques just not working?
You’ve experienced the frustration; you have a client who seems to just not break through. You’ve tried your best, but the outcome is the same: he or she progresses for a while, then regresses again.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is the popular transdiagnostic approach that you can integrate into your practice to achieve positive therapeutic outcomes with difficult-to-treat clients.
Join ACT expert and presenter Daniel J. Moran, as he delivers an exerciseand intervention-heavy course that will give you the tools you need to more effectively treat clients with PTSD, anxiety, depression or personality disorders.
You’ll learn how ACT weaves mindfulness strategies with cognitivebehavioral change strategies to revolutionize client outcomes, as well as discover a variety of ACT techniques for helping clients who are struggling to make difficult behavior changes due to the presence of painful thoughts, feelings and memories.
By shifting client focus to their own values, ACT sets clients up to embrace behavior change that is meaningful to them while simultaneously fostering skills that allow clients to more effectively handle impulsive actions based on current thoughts or emotions.
Sign up today, and Dr. Moran will guide you step-by-step through highly practical, evidence-based ACT skills that you can apply in your practice immediately!

Internal Family Systems Therapy: Step-by-Step Procedures for Healing Traumatic Wounds and Alleviating Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Addiction and More - Live Webinar
2020-07-23 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
After decades of clinical innovation and recent scientific research, the empirically validated Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been shown to be effective at improving clients’ general functioning and well-being. This effective model provides clinicians with procedures for helping clients with the most challenging mental health profiles to heal the wounded, burdened, and traumatized parts of their systems.
The IFS model provides a compassionate, respectful, non-pathologizing approach to understanding the organization and functioning of the human psyche.
The transformative IFS approach embraces and celebrates the natural multiplicity of the mind. Its assumption that every part of the system has good intention and valuable resources allows clinicians to approach even the most troubling of “symptoms” with compassion and respect. IFS offers therapists a powerful and effective set of tools for empowering clients with a wide range of clinical profiles to heal the wounded and burdened parts of their internal systems, resulting in:

a way to enter clients’ inner ecology without the overemphasis on containment and stabilization
symptom reduction and improved functioning for clients
deep self-healing within even the most troubled clients

IFS is a powerful treatment modality. Once you experience it, you will want to incorporate it into your practice.
Through instruction, video demonstration, and experiential exercises, Alexia D. Rothman, Ph.D., Certified IFS therapist and colleague of Dr. Richard Schwartz (founder of IFS) will show you step-by-step how to apply the most effective, empirically validated IFS interventions to help your clients connect with and understand their conflicting parts to facilitate deep, lasting healing.

Neuroplasticity for Orthopedic Recovery and Pain Relief: How Injury Changes the Brain and How You Can Help Rewire It - Live Webinar
2020-07-20 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
Neuroplasticity is one of the most important concepts when it comes to recovery, but is often overlooked when treating traumatic injuries. From traumatic injuries and post-op conditions to stroke, this course will deliver new thoughts on how to detour around damage and incorporate viable nervous system connections for faster, more complete recovery.
It’s never too late. The brain is not hard wired. It can change and adapt, even decades after the initial injury.
Drawing on over 40 years of clinical experience, Dr. Pryor will teach you practical, evidence-based techniques and interventions to stimulate the brain and enhance recovery.

Evaluate the nervous system for damage and functional pathways
Address tone abnormalities, vision and how they are intimately related and treatable
Advance patient function with guided neurological reconnection
Improve balance and visuospatial function to enhance client independence and feelings of safety
Create actionable treatment plans to help at home
Reclaim movement and quality of life

You will learn practical and useful techniques that can be implemented immediately within your practice. These evidence-based interventions will apply across the spectrum from initial injury to recovery.
Sign up today! You can’t afford to miss out on this chance to get the skills, techniques and knowledge you can use to promote neuroplasticity and increased function for your patients!

Chronic Anxiety: Powerful Treatment Methods to Break the Anxiety Cycle - Live Webinar
2020-07-17 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
Chronic anxiety disorders all involve a “threat” that doesn’t occur. Panic attacks don’t kill, obsessive doubts about the stove don’t cause fires, social anxiety doesn’t lead to disgrace and isolation, worry doesn’t lead to insanity. The feared outcomes recede into the future the way an optical illusion recedes into the horizon.
Why are anxiety disorders so powerfully chronic? It’s because chronically anxious clients get tricked by their own efforts to avoid, distract from, and protect against the perceived dangers. When the dangers don’t come to pass, they believe they had a narrow escape from a terrible calamity, and feel more vulnerable going forward rather than less. They become increasingly afraid of more and more improbable events. What we call the “anxiety disorders” could be more accurately termed “the disorders of excessive self-protection”, because that’s how they function!
How can you help them recover? By teaching them how to disengage from the self-protective behaviors that trick them. Attend this live webcast and learn how to help your anxious clients find the evidence of this in their own lives, so you can help them approach and accept, rather than avoid and resist, the experience of anxiety.
This workshop will teach you to empower your anxious clients to see themselves as good, capable people who have been fooled by anxiety, rather than defective people who need protection. Discover how to motivate your clients to seek out, rather than avoid, the corrective experiences they need for recovery. Take home effective strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Paradoxical Therapy, Metacognitive Therapy, and traditional CBT to help your clients rediscover the hopes and dreams they had for life before they were derailed by their struggle against anxiety. You, and your clients, will be glad you did!

Breathing, Digestion and Swallowing: Best Practices in Dysphagia Management - Live Webinar
2020-07-17 06:00 - 13:30 (America/Phoenix)
What’s the safest diet? Is he aspirating? Can she swallow these pills? He hates the pureed food – what else can we do? She’s refusing the thick liquids! Is he going to get pneumonia? Does he need a feeding tube?
These are issues that we face every day in our work with children and adults with dysphagia. How do we keep our clients safe, while making sure they’re well hydrated and well nourished, and normalize eating as much as possible?
Sometimes, it’s about more than just swallowing.
This course will examine the inter-relationships between respiration, gastrointestinal function, and swallowing to allow clinicians to better identify the underlying causes of their client’s swallowing difficulties. We’ll look at specific respiratory and GI diagnoses and their impact on what, when, how much, and how safely our clients eat. Using clinical case studies, we’ll examine the evidence to provide you with the tools you need to perform a thorough assessment and implement a comprehensive treatment plan that takes into account all of the potential contributing factors. ​

Return to School and Sport Considerations for Concussion Rehabilitation - Live Webinar
2020-07-16 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Return to School and Sport Considerations for Concussion Rehabilitation

Confidently differentiate between various system contributions to symptoms that may be limiting the student’s participation in school related activities
Learn evidence-based exercise prescriptions and progression that are safe, effective, and efficient

Innovative Vision Rehab Strategies for PTs, OTs, & SLPs: Don't Let Vision Limit Your Patient's Progress - Live Webinar
2020-07-16 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
When your patient wins the day, you win the day. And in those moments, you’re unstoppable.
But when your patient has vision deficits, even your most tried-and-true therapy protocols can quickly go off the rails, dramatically limiting your effectiveness and halting progress in a variety of frustrating ways:

Poor performance of tasks/exercises
Avoidance of ADLs
Increased functional dependence
Noncompliance with home programs
Reading/communication problems
Limited hand-eye coordination
Gait and posture dysfunction
Frequent falls

Here’s the good news. Vision deficits don’t have to limit you or your patients ever again.
Join your colleagues at this upcoming live webcast and discover a powerful framework for vision rehabilitation that has helped countless therapists and their patients overcome these challenges.
Whether your patients are adults with diabetic retinopathy or stroke survivors with vision perception problems, you’ll transform your practice with innovative interventions that accelerate progress for outcomes that will earn you referrals.

Neuroscience for Clinicians: Brain Change for Stress, Anxiety, Trauma, Moods and Substance Abuse - Live Webinar
2020-07-14 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Neuroscience has given us incredible insights into the workings of the brain and its connection to our mental health. Recent research reveals that neuroplasticity takes place all through life, so you can offer hope for real change no matter how long your client has suffered.
This live webcast will connect complicated science with your clinical practice, and transform how you view and work with traumatized, stressed, addicted, anxious and depressed clients!
Discover how and where neuroplasticity occurs, and ways to use it therapeutically. Participate in enjoyable learning experiences that provide you with the clear principles and background you need for utilizing neuroscience in your work. Draw on multiple modalities to overcome resistance, activate creative responses, and turn problems into potentials. Add new dimensions to each therapy session and initiate change using top-down, bottom-up, and horizontal methods that can be creatively individualized.
Leave this webcast feeling confident in bringing the latest findings from neuroscience into your treatments!
